Installing IBM Spectrum Protect Plus as a Hyper-V virtual appliance

To install IBM Spectrum Protect Plus in a Microsoft Hyper-V environment, import the IBM Spectrum Protect Plus for Hyper-V template. Importing a template creates a virtual appliance containing the IBM Spectrum Protect Plus application on a Hyper-V virtual machine.

To install IBM Spectrum Protect Plus as a virtual appliance, complete the following steps:

1. Copy the <part_number>.exe file to your Hyper-V server.
2. Open the installer and complete the Setup Wizard.
3. Open Hyper-V Manager and select the required server.
4. From the Actions pane in Hyper-V Manager, click Import Virtual Machine. The Import Virtual Machine wizard opens. Click Next.
5. In the Locate Folder step, click Browse and navigate to the folder that was designated during the installation. Select the folder with SPP-{release} in it. Click Next.
6. In the Select Virtual Machine step, ensure the virtual machine SPP-{release} is selected and then click Next. The Choose Import Type dialog opens.
7. In the Choose Import Type step, select Register the virtual machine in-place (use the existing unique ID). Click Next.
   Important: Do not import multiple IBM Spectrum Protect Plus virtual appliances on a single Hyper-V server.
8. In the Connect Network step, set Connection to the virtual switch to use. Click Next.
9. In the Summary step, review the Description. Click Finish to close the Import Virtual Machine wizard.
10. In Hyper-V Manager, locate the new virtual machine named SPP-{release}. Right-click this virtual machine and click Settings.
11. The Settings dialog for this virtual machine will open. In the navigation pane, click Hardware > IDE Controller 0 > Hard Drive.
12. In the Media section, ensure that the correct virtual hard disk is selected. Note the file name of the original virtual disk. Click Edit.
13. The Edit Virtual Hard Disk Wizard will open. Go to the Choose Action step.
14. In the Choose Action step, click Convert and then click Next.
15. In the Choose Disk Format step, ensure that VHDX is selected. Click Next.
16. For the Choose Disk Type step, click Fixed Size. Click Next.
17. For the Configure Disk step, locate the folder to store the virtual disk file of the IBM Spectrum Protect Plus virtual appliance. Reuse the same file name that was noted in Step 12. If the same installation directory from Step 12 is reused, use a different name. Click Next.
    Important: Ensure that the disk drive on which the folder resides has enough disk space available to accommodate the fixed-size virtual disk file.
18. In the Summary step, review the Description. Click Finish to close the Edit Virtual Hard Disk wizard and to initiate the conversion of the virtual disk. Once the process completes, the original virtual hard disk file may be deleted.
19. In the Settings dialog for the virtual machine, click Browse. Open the newly created virtual hard disk (VHDX) file that was created in the previous step.
20. Repeat steps 12 through 19 for each hard drive under Hardware > SCSI Controller. Click OK to close the Settings dialog.
21. In the Hyper-V Manager, right-click the virtual machine and click Start.
22. Use Hyper-V Manager to identify the IP address of the new virtual machine if the address is automatically assigned. To assign a static IP to the virtual machine, use the NetworkManager Text User Interface (nmtui) tool.
    For more information, see Assigning a static IP address.
    Important: IBM Spectrum Protect Plus or vSnap virtual machines that are deployed using Hyper-V failover clustering should be configured with a static media access control (MAC) address for each virtual network adapter. If a dynamic MAC address is used, the Linux networking configuration may be lost after failover because a new MAC address is assigned to the virtual network adapter. The MAC address may be configured by editing the settings of the virtual machine in the Hyper-V Manager or Failover Cluster Manage. Ensuring that each virtual network adapter is assigned a static MAC address will prevent the loss of the network configuration.